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Why the Microsoft Dividend Is the Real Reason to Buy the Stock

Wall Street smiled at a beefed up Microsoft dividend yesterday, but cheered at a $40 billion stock buyback program.

Of course, they got it exactly backwards.

In the long run, the MSFT dividend will have a much greater impact on Microsoft stock than the buyback program. Part of that is because of the better than average yield.